xviii, 670 pages : 30 cm

"Welcome to the Eighth Edition of Janson's concise introduction to the Western tradition in art, officially renamed Janson's basic history of western art"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references (pages 640-646) and index

pt. 1. The ancient world. Prehistoric art -- Ancient Near Eastern art -- Egyptian art -- Aegean art -- Greek art -- Etruscan art -- Roman art

pt. 2. The Middle Ages. Early Christian, and Byzantine and early Islamic art -- Early Medieval art -- Romanesque art -- Gothic art

pt. 3. The Renaissance through the Rococo : early modern Europe. Art in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy -- Artistic innovations in fifteenth-century northern Europe -- The Early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy -- The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495--1520 -- The Late Renaissance and mannerism in sixteenth-century Italy -- Renaissance and Reformation throughout sixteenth-century Europe -- The Baroque in Italy and Spain -- The Baroque in the Netherlands -- The Baroque in France and England -- The Rococo

pt. 4. The modern world. Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750--1789 -- Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789--1848 -- The age of Positivism : Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848--1885 -- Progress and its discontents : post-Impressionism, symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880--1905 -- Toward Abstraction : the Modernist revolution, 1905--1914 -- Art between the Wars -- Postwar to Postmodern, 1945--1980 -- The Postmodern era : art since 1980

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